so, wednesday I took sophia and petey to the vet to get them puppy drugs for the plane, and to get sophia's booster shots for all of those doggy diseases. Danny was in california taking eli to chip's house. I thought, damn, what am I going to do tonight with all of this free time (since finals were over and danny was gone)....so i got ready for a relaxing night. I was going to do a face masks, pedicure, manicure, etc....

but around 8pm, sophia started acting weird. she came up to me on the couch and just stared at me, and then started smashing her face against the back of the couch. I looked at her, and she had all of these swollen bumps around her nose....that's wierd, they have never been there before. But as I stared at her, her face swelled right infront of my eyes....really bad. I started FREAKING OUT. I called the vet. no answer. so i looked online for the closest emergency vet....I called....and they said she was having a severe allergic reaction to her vaccines and I needed to bring her in immediately.

so I freaked out some more. I ran to my closest and through on the clothes that I first touched. bad outfit i might add. I turned around and saw sophia down the hall vomiting uncontrollably! Like 6 times in the matter of a minute. Yea, panic by now had set in. and by this time, her face was so swollen I could barely stare at her.....

....we ran down the stairs to the car, and i tripped in the process pulling my hamstring (which is not in serious pain). I drove in hysterics to the vet which thankfully was just down the street. I walked in a freakin wreck. Sophia's face was so swollen that her eyes were pretty much shut. Her entire body was on fire with hives, and everything was itching and swollen....not just her face.

I was such a mess, they had to take her to the back because I was working myself up and in the process making sophia more stressed.

after a few hours, the doctor finally came in and told me she was going to be okay. A pretty penny and a few shots later, she was ready to go home. The poor thing. I hope I never see her like that again....my poor baby.



And tonight we leave for our glorious trip to buffalo. we are so excited! minus the flight of course.

I met tanya harding today. the olympic figure skater gone wild.

I had to ship back my fake hair. i was sad about it. but it just wasn't working out. and for $100, that damn thing should have.

so, the last time I wrote, as I clicked "publish" my computer screen on my brand new macbook started to bubble. and then. i saw a fire. under my screen. it was not cool. so, i ran to the apple store, and was without a cute little macbook till yesterday. they replaced it all, but my hard drive....they saved that, thank god. I am quite happy with apple care.

so today was the ultimate final exam. my transmissions of infectious disease class is OVER. thank god. but that means that the summer is coming, and is usually something that everyone looks forward to, but not me. for numerous reasons. 1. it's too fucking hot here. 115 degrees isn't my idea of a good time. 2. i am taking 4 summer classes. that is insane. I hope i can keep my sanity.

shit went down at work. long story short, my job was taken from me behind my back and offered to the whole campus by my boss. i was really hurt because she told me she didn't have funding to keep me on for the summer. then she offered it to the whole graduate college. cool. we talked, and apparently i am taking it too personal and she thinks i am a great person, but it isn't a job for me...but bottom line: i was hurt. so this job ends june 30th.

but in the process, i got a new job starting july1st. i am super excited. it's working on this great lead project here in clark county. one door shuts, another one opens. thank god.

so, my trip home to buffalo starts next friday. i am way excited. home is wear the heart is. that's for sure. i guess id din't realize that till i wasn't really home anymore.

my favorite professor in the department offered me some work doing lead level lab work. I am so excited....for various reasons.

1. the lead project he is doing is monumental for the UNLV school of public health. He basically uncovered all of these mexican candies that contained toxic levels of lead, and now is working along side the health department to make sure other products we are consuming in clark county do not contain lead....american made products most think don't contain lead, but they do....but the real problem is the amount of foreign made products....because the standards aren't as strict in mexico and beyond.

2. I lack experience in a lab. This would give me that additional point of hiring interest.

3. Dr. G is the coolest professor ever. i think he would be a great boss.

4. obviously, it is a job. and it is a job in my field. i can't complain about that.


So danny puts in the word today at his school that he is quitting as of the end of this school year. He is shitting his pants, but I am sure he will be ok....and once it's over, he can concentrate on what he wants to do next. He is seriously considering law school. quite ambitous, but i know he is a perfect candidate to get in that field...

I have an MRI today. I am so scared. I know there is really nothing to be afraid of, but i work myself up....but hopefully it will show that I can stop treatment (from my neck injury in my car accident), my lawsuit will end, and I will get a settlement to trade in my car. My car is bad karma. funny.. but real.